On A Woman's Madness [electronic resource]
Astrid Roemer2024
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Longlisted for the Booker International Prize 2025
On a Woman's Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying
to live a life of her own choosing. When her abusive husband of just nine days
refuses her request for divorce, Noenka flees her hometown in Suriname, on South
America's tropical northeastern coast, for the capital city of Paramaribo.
Unsettled and unsupported, her life in this new place is illuminated by romance
and new freedoms, but also forever haunted by her past and society's
expectations. Strikingly translated by Lucy Scott, Astrid Roemer's classic queer
novel is a tentpole of European and post-colonial literature. And amid tales of
plantation-dwelling snakes, rare orchids, and star-crossed lovers, it is also a
blistering meditation on the cruelties we inflict on those who disobey. Roemer,
the first Surinamese winner of the prestigious Dutch Literature Prize, carves
out postcolonial Suriname in barbed, resonant fragments. Who is Noenka? ...
Main title:
On A Woman's Madness [electronic resource] / Astrid Roemer
Author:
Astrid Roemer, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Tilted Axis Press, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (284 pages)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781917126083
Language:
English
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BRN:
528736
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